the headlines here on all it's he could have just stunned politicians take their last chance to sway voters also. ahead of sunday's parliamentary election. poland's run by religious tension. new mosque sponsors feel the country could become a radical. year on a floating ice for fifteen arctic scientists on a mission to study the frozen pole in complete isolation from. voyage to the star state of the soyuz rocket carries through close windows for those of the international space station. and coming up in the business someday

reports that russia could sell its first phones next. in about twenty minutes time . around the world around the clock this is our. welcome to the program. it's the last day of campaigning in kyrgyzstan ahead of the crucial parliamentary vote the election will establish central asia as first parliamentary republic one in which the president's powers that will be curbed it's also hope to bring coveted stability to the region that has suffered from deadly political and ethnic violence in the past few months you go to school for ports. burnt down shops and houses abandoned cafes and broken windows political billboards alongside piles of

debris on the street as kyrgyzstan gets ready to vote for your parliament here in or should the country's second largest city the need for change is obvious. we need a decent government able to restore peace and stability that all stopped people from leaving economy secure enough stability in the economy to start working there so we mean well eighty two polling stations have been set of across the city the election is to be observed by monitors from the sea russia and the c.i.s. the amount of competing parties is clearly stands all time record twenty nine the country's interim president is pushing to build a parliamentary republic where the head of state is more of a ceremonial figure than the one who holds power however several parties are against the idea including the one headed by the former prime minister felix school . each body has to pass the five percent mark in order to get into college.

it's. after what happened this election is not just a political choice it's a chance to reunite two peoples to build a new country. the majority of the population in or shark your guess while around one third was back nationals in june the two clashed in a massive outburst of violence armed gangs that destroyed shops and said houses ablaze according to the most modest figures hundreds of people were killed and several thousand others were injured the havoc lasted several days until the interim government regained control by that time most populated districts have been almost completely destroyed many like this woman who lost everything and even now are forced to survive without a roof over their head. my house was burned down i don't have anything i can get is from the red cross maybe you know the upcoming vote could attract more violence on thursday police arrested

a man sending threats to locals trying to make them vote for a specific party over three hundred officers will patrol the polling stations and five hundred swat like commandos have been flown in from the capital bishkek volunteers have also been recruited. we've now switched to an intense mode of operations besides the additional force a separate seam of around one hundred officers is taking part in tactical drills and will also be deployed in the case of emergency. direction was proposed by the interim government in me after president was overthrown by thousands of processors the opposition to control of the country promising democratically for. friday is the final day off political rallying which means just one more day is left before sunday's election here in it seems the authorities are ready both in terms of the organization and security but the phrases of the recent violence can still be easily found in most parts of the city and or a clear sign stability is still

a long way off you go to our g. force. the construction of a new muslim center in the heart of predominantly catholic poland has outraged activists across the country and opponents say the mosque in warsaw could foster radicalism and terrorism but local muslims claim religious discrimination artie's alexy has more. muhammad moved from egypt to warsaw several years ago however he says it's been hard to settle in. i only do freelance jobs because it's very difficult for me to find any permanent work and it's not because i'm not skilled but because my applications are turned danged as soon as employers learn that my name is muhammad. poland has long been a mono ethnic nation with the muslim community less than one percent of the population most of them are ethnic talked ours who have been here for centuries but

ahead of war so it's only islamic center says the number of migrants from muslim countries is growing rapidly the. right sort of this mosque almost twenty years ago and the several dozen people were coming here for prayer now the friday prayer gathers hundreds and the building simply cannot fit everyone. news of another islamic center to be built in warsaw was welcomed by the nation's thirty thousand strong minority construction of a new second mosque in warsaw began last year according to blue brains it is supposed to be three times as large as the initial islamic center but unlike the first mosque which was sponsored by the local muslim community this one was financed from abroad. and. the fact that construction money came from saudi arabia enraged several political movements in poland they staged protests urging the government to stop what they call islam isolation of the

country the man behind the rally says it is the fear of terrorism that drove people onto the streets the belief that this organisers. which is going to build this mosque on you are so connected to the nation of islam you are going to say she knew what all the other organizations which are members of the pleasure of going just a few of. our own in western europe from the right because that's my. i want to say music starts most from connection to terrorist the rally gathered several hundred men and was a little surprise to politicians this is an influence of what is happening to western european countries i mean everybody here wants to know what was happening in peri in france in another french cities. that's read from the fundamentalists from the terrorists after all and they decided to participate in iraq and

afghanistan operations sociologists say most crowley slipped a fuse for a time bomb. or so on for now the civic outrage is more or less come down by the presence of european human rights activists as the number of immigrants grows this may well be not enough to keep the protests down i believe we're facing a serious conflict in the future. at the moment only around three percent of the country is a whole region but with more immigrants coming to poland the anticipated brighter future with the european union could be clouded by worries of ethnic tension. see reporting from warsaw in poland. and coming up for you in the program here on our grim landmark in u.s. military history after nine years of war in afghanistan a campaign is drawing more criticism both walls from within the country and abroad . and we're at the launch pad in the

cast like a step as the next crew blast off to the international space station. russian scientists will spend a year drifting on an ice floe in an epic expedition to the arctic it is the latest in a series of trips to study the area and support russia's claim to the region's territory because they're not going to witness the departure of the ice breaker from a northern port before getting on board. bonfires at the top of the world nothing new for the likes of arctic veteran russia's. he's lost count of times he's traveled to both poles the others a new lonely cold possibly dangerous adventure lies ahead. for these young man two weeks aboard an icebreaker is a last chance to have fun and get to know new colleagues but as soon as they get to

their final destination it will be hard work and survival. if there's terrorism present girlfriend it's handmade sterilizes and all travelers book with drawings and layers of pairs of. impressions interesting stories but isn't it a tiny i will write in tiny letters. twenty five year old ocean ologist andre is one of a fifteen strong team will be left to fend for themselves for a year whatever food mattson equipment or cloths they need has to go with them now because they'll be out of reach and there have to keep an eye on ice cracks dangerous storms and paula back on the hunt also having north on the ship is a veteran goalie from the sunny russian republic of korea although he won't be staying behind this time he says he's family aunt exactly happy with his career choice you know. my parents who are against their expedition which are worse in

relation with parents in the caucasus is a serious thing i came back home for six months to build a house for my sons and move to st petersburg in order climate has battery life in the warm galley has been looking forward to reuniting with his best friends while he's been on leave huskies dean and dick spent a year on the island to these most of it outdoors scientists tell stories of how they. fearlessly chase bass into the sea gullies seen them grow from poppies into courageous explorers but they can never hurt salt to woman climbs scientists believe in the bees island for more than a year at a time harsh weather conditions and three local bass makes for a significant danger to the explorers and the biggest threat to these animals to these dogs lies not within the optic but outside it one in the north which is almost clean of viruses these stocks simply wouldn't make it in the cities that's

why they're moved from one station to another in other words there and cut in the north for the rest of their lives. straight you'll use what you know today is a special day for me i can express it with words i'm overjoyed i took a pipe from dish to to the students and it died i would have been less upset if my wife would have fallen save us but when my dog died i couldn't eat and sleep for a week. now the docs are up and ready for a new paula joy any girl explains turn dreams are born you have to make them love you he says make them part of the team you need all the friends he can get alone in the arctic. it's in the churchyard tea from the island to be set in the arctic. now our website r.t.

dot com has a lot more for you and here's a taste of what's working for you online right now why does america c r t as an enemy we explore how us overseas broadcasters plan expansion while slamming competitors. there is no end to extreme temperatures after russia's scorching heat this summer forecasters say winter temperatures are shaping up to be the coldest in a millennium find out why. u.s. reliance on private security in afghanistan could have filled the pockets of the taliban senate report has now found it said the taxpayer dollars helped the insurgency contractors' often didn't vet local recruits and so hired warlords meanwhile the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan which reached a grim milestone of nine years is facing even more criticism many say what was started in response to the nine eleven attacks was turned out to be

a quagmire like the vietnam war international forces are expected to withdraw july next year although not all the ones phyllis bennis from the institute for policy studies says there is a lack of political will to end become pain. were there because no u.s. president no u.s. politician is willing to say this was a failed war from the beginning we should never have been there from the beginning we should get out the entry to afghanistan was a defeat from day one the bottom line is it was not a war of self-defense we were not attacked by afghans the notion that we. going because we were worried about people's human rights under the taliban that doesn't explain why we were so willing to deal with the taliban before this we were dealing with the taliban over creating oil pipelines across afghanistan there's a lot of hypocrisy here and i think that we do ourselves a disservice and we do the people of afghanistan a disservice if we blur that we were attacked in a harbel crime against humanity the answer to that should never have been war war

veteran member of the rethink afghanistan movement just in thompson says that the us led war will have long term effects on future generations after. the question i ask is like why are we still there and what are we actually doing what is the effect on the population because yes we talk about regional stability with afghanistan and pakistan as well but we don't ever talk about the civilian impact the impact on women do women have increasing women's rights today also what about the children this is the future generation that is actually going to take over to rule the country once we leave so the impact they were having on what they're seeing the level of violence their friends and family being killed these are very negative impacts if we did pull out it would have a good long term benefit is because we're right now we're breeding terrorism in the region we're creating instability in pakistan bar continued presence in afghanistan with cross border attacks we're seeing on nato supply lines and on u.s.

bases from the pakistani side into afghanistan as well. war veteran and member of the rethink afghanistan movement justin thompson right that well the head of a russia as an agency says the years long u.s. campaign in afghanistan has actually stalled the fight against drugs in the country . that's the nine years of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan shows more fighting equals less chance to destroy the narcotics business only the government capable of ruling the country based on the population support we can solve the drugs problem when americans say you can't leave the peasants without learning the way of income they're giving a sign to the afghan authorities to keep out of the opium business because those left without cash work turn to the taliban for support but this is just an excuse to get their due. well you can get the full interview with the head of russia's anti narcotics agency on our website at r.t.

dot com we will also be broadcasting it on sunday or let's get to some other news now making headlines around the world this hour and in chile a thirty three miners trapped underground for more than two months may be reached by some of the day rescuers have already drilled through over five hundred meters of rock and have only ninety meters left to go they will then check how safe the shaft is before they bring them to the surface the country's mining minister said they will be rescued within ten days at the latest and relatives are currently waiting on the ground level at the site. the queen of the netherlands has asked the liberal party leader to form a cabinet he'll head a center right coalition but will rely on parliamentary support from the anti islamic freedom party which will remain outside because it follows months of negotiations after the elections in june the new cabinet plans to ban full face islamic veil. experts tackling

a toxic red chemical sludge spill in hungary say friday is a crucial day in stopping the pollution from spreading further emergency workers are pouring in clay and acid into streams to neutralize the alkali sludge which has reached the danube spill came from a reservoir which burst upstream leaving four people dead and one hundred injured mid fears toxins could spread through the air the cleanup operation is expected to take at least a year. thousands of public workers in greece have walked off the job in a twenty four hour strike over job losses and the wage cuts they're demanding the government repealed stringent austerity measures designed to put the country under a financial crisis hold public offices and hospitals have been shocked with many flights to and from greece canceled as air traffic controllers are joined in the demonstrations. well before dawn in the step of kazakstan the engines of

a soyuz spacecraft a roll to live sending it on a two day flight to the international space station two cosmonauts and nasa astronauts are on board the high tech spacecraft and tom barton watched the entire launch. baikonur has been the site of rocket launches for about fifty five years this year its anniversary it's also been the site of soyuz launches for decades it garnered three from here and now this soyuz rocket is an advance upon a long line of previous ones one thing that hasn't changed over all the decades is the people of flying the humans crews that go inside it the three men in this crew had been training for two years long an extensive training period the captain alexander kaleri experienced cosmonaut this is his fifth trip up into space script. another threat engineer on board this is his first trip into space and the

third the u.s. astronaut scott kelly it's his third trip into space an interesting extra detail about him quite astonishingly his brother also in astronauts mark kelly is here watching him later on he will be flying up with a u.s. spy shuttle possibly even the last u.s. space shuttle to the international space station and working with his brother for a short period that you know it's a credible to watch any rocket launch and all my brothers are board makes it even more exciting i've seen a launch three times now and it's pretty incredible thing to see the boosters now starting up which is going to stand back and take a look at the launch the culmination of all the preparations that have gone into this. the rockets going up now to the international space station on its journey out

there and rockets flying back after a few months may be the only link with the international space station meaning that baikonur will be humanity's gateway up to space. looks like quite the ride now shala joins us with the latest business update so tell me charlotte and one russian retailer is hoping to sink its debts in london yes russian retailer ok is being valued at up to three billion dollars ahead of its i.p.o. in the british capital which is needed to cut its five hundred million dollars debt will have the details later in the program but first this hour russia may sell its first phones denominated in euro's next year that's according to the finance minister to meet your bank in the country will seek to raise up to five point five billion dollars in april russia solve its first international bond for the fall nine hundred ninety eight james to fill the gap between government income and spending. russia and cyprus of exile and an agreement eliminating double

taxation between the two countries dave has been reached by russia's president who's visiting cyprus aiming to develop close a more transparent financial ties of course the taxes are still low here but they already been implemented there's no zero taxation in cyprus but there was a couple of questions one including the disclosure of information about the company and second about particular purchase of the real estate in russia. the result so it's just happened historically in the russian business not only partly for the reason of taxation partly for the reason of providing additional security for investment. and so i pressed i think. we can change it very quickly is sort of the number one task is to. get more investment from five percent to russia was happening i think cyprus is one of the largest investor in

russia and i think gradually the russian business will start probably to move to russia but at the end of the day even have a normal tax that tax regime would have a normal chief information i think of the very much matter. now the future of russia's largest mining companies to be a scientist in a special general meeting being held in two weeks time nickel has been gripped in a bitter dispute between shareholders all their dairy path because russell already a photon is into ross the united vetiver has details. the shock waves are still spreading from nearest annual meeting back in june interoffice with a twenty five percent stake gained four seats on the board while you so with a slightly larger stake managed to get on this we then broke a truce in which the two shareholders had agreed not to attempt to gain control of the valuable nickel producers since then there have been claims from both the new regulations legal action and proposals from both sides to buy the other out bruce

also pulled to see management it's too close to interest specifically they want a bigger dividend payout to shareholders and if you can't invest in your projects you have to return the money to the shareholders there's no reason for the management to. enjoy the big cash pile that is sitting laura's balancer that has to be returned to show hall those tours are going to invest in new projects themselves if the management is not able to do so very simple corporate governance professional management that's what it stands for and we do believe those issues also preserve while there was a company from current sorts a bit until sixty billion dollars at least twice for the next eighteen months no risk denies it's involved boardroom games the company says it needs the money to start through ations which route would unfold. in turn. but we are working to manage illustrated kerry not fun calculation works for that final decision is not you know we're quite sure we will have some. interest and put

aside their differences then to depths of the global financial crisis but metals prices are rising again generating attractive. cash flows something they. could certainly use the room for compromise shrinking them urgency general meeting near the nine hundred of our business our team. tunnel cyclical markets and here in russia the both the slide into the second day as crude metals the trough dimming the prospect of old material produces the rails nickel lukoil and after a long lame players dragging lockett's down more than one percent from the r.t.s. . and over in europe stocks are losing ground in morning trade with investors fixing the back tension on key u.s. jobs data to come out later today footsie and both slipping into their right to sell. russian investment company choice dialog is seeking to exchanges twenty five percent stake in car maker after over us the shares of missile and rhino

that's according to the head russian technology which is one of the major shareholders of a car running twenty five percent of the troubled russian car maker in september the french company came to wouldn't increase its stake into the financial condition of off the basket that's at stake by choice of dollars worth of three hundred twenty million dollars that's equal to two percent of where they were thirty one percent in the sun. and finally russia's third largest retailer ok is being valued at around three billion dollars the headers of coming i.p.o. in london their gross a raise up to five hundred million dollars in order to sink short term debts last year case sales growth thirty three percent more than two dollars three tel change will be fifty shops throughout russia. based our my colleague you have walk over we have next hour to take you through the business for the rest of the day but in the meantime you can always find more stories on our website called slash business.

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